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FLIGHT, JANUARY 3, 1930 SOME BIRTHDAY MESSAGES From far and near, from at home, from the Dominions and from abroad, birthday messages have reached us as a result of the reminder that with this week's issue FLIGHT completes 21 years of publication. Although we had naturally hoped that a few of our readers would wish us "Many Happy Returns of the Day," we were rather unprepared for the flow of messages by post, telegraph and cable which have been arriving at our office during the last week or two. It is quite impossible, in the space which we are able to devote to them, to publish alt these messages, much as we should have liked to do so. But below we give a selection in the belief that our many readers will be interested to read the messages which so many famous and prominent people have been kind enough to send us. Where messages have arrived by post we reproduce the signa- tures in facsimile. From BRIG.-GENERAL THE RT. HON. LORD THOMSON OF CARDINGTON, C.B.E., D.S.O., Secretary of State for Air. " It gives me very great pleasure, as Secretary of State for Air, to congratulate FLIGHT on the attainment of its majority. Twenty-one years ago aviation was in its infancy ; flying, as we know it to-day, had scarcely begun, and it was a bold project to embark on the publication of a weekly paper devoted solely to aviation. Time has justified the venture, and FLIGHT has now surely established itself as a stimulating and authoritative periodical of interest alike to the amateur and the professional—to the pilot, the technician, and the man in the street. " If I may refer to one feature, I would particularly commend the valuable encouragement which, as the official organ of the Royal Aero Club, it is the policy of FLIGHT to give to the light aeroplane club movement—a movement calculated to be of the greatest importance for the development of aviation in this country. I am sure that all interested in aviation will join with me in wishing FLIGHT continued success and prosperity." From MR. F. MONTAGUE, M.P., Under-Secretary of State for Air. " It is with the greatest of pleasure that I offer my congratulations to FLIGHT upon the celebration of its twenty-first birthday. " 1 he establishment of FLIGHT 21 years ago showed, indeed, a wonderful foresight in the potential development of the conquest of the air. But even that foresight can hardly have envisaged the enormous development during the period in question, not only of military aviation, but of commercial aircraft as a means of improvement in communications in times of peace. " The development of civil aviation throughout the world is really just beginning, and in the future years of inevitable expansion one will look to FLIGHT to record all items of interest and importance, both technical and general, as attractively and efficiently in the future as it has done in the past." From AIR CHIEF MARSHAL SIR J. M. SALMOND, K.C.B., C.M.G., C.V.O., D.S.O., A.D.C., Chief of the Air Staff. " I am glad to be able to congratulate FLIGHT on attaining the 21st year of its publication, which sees it well established as, I believe, the oldest purely aeronautical weekly in the world. Not only is the journal the official organ of the Royal Aero Club of the United Kingdom, but, it serves a wide area of diverse interests for the interchange of ideas on all aspects of aviation. " Its features of editorial comment, of matter relating to private flying, light aeroplane clubs, engines and the engineer, reviews of books, and as a means for the dissemination of official information are of incalculable value to the aeronautical world. :•" I wish it and its founder (who is also its present editor) continued prosperity and success." From AIR VICE-MARSHAL SIR SEFTON BRANCKER, K.C.B., A.F.C., Director of Civil Aviation. " I congratulate FLIGHT on completing the twenty-first year of a most useful and patriotic exis- tence. May FLIGHT live and prosper, continuing the good work, so soundly and so painstakingly accomplished in the past, through centuries of the future. I wish you ' Many happy returns of the Day ' with all confidence and sincerity." 12
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